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| LIMITED EDITION: A DESCENT
INTO THE MAELSTROM that pleasure which is at once
the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain,
from the contemplation of the beautiful. |
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BERENICE |
A cerebral scent, dry, and white. This is a perfume of thought, not heart,
and of unforeseen pain and sudden obsession, touched with uncertain twilight
and ambiguous horror. Stargazer lily, white musk, clear aloe, blonde amber
and winding-cloth linen.
This is my Maestrom shocking surprise. I bought the whole
series, because I couldn't decide on anything. This is one of the ones
I thought I'd dislike & have to unload on someone later.
Lilies are usually something that I dislike wearing. They're usually too
floral for my tastes, and sometimes remind me of funerary flowers (yes,
take my goth card away).
Putting this on, though, it is light, clean, refreshing, pretty, and totally
awesome. It reminds me of some washing detergent that people use in Europe
(which sounds like a totally weird correlation, but I always loved the
smell of peoples' laundry when visiting abroad... I'm a freak).
It is like a clean, sweet hug. It lasts very nicely
too, with good throw. I may also have to say that so far this has been
my favorite in the set. Backups definitely required.
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FORTUNATO |
A deep, rich
sherry encased in dusty darkness, touched by oak, and damp catacomb stone.
The scent begins with a sense of drunken glee, of orange peel, bittersweet
berry and rose hip, and moves inexorably towards the dread and terror expressed
in black patchouli. |
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2 x 5mL |
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LIGEIA |
Jasmine, juniper
berry and rose geranium. |
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5mL |
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THE
MASQUE |
Bold and fiery,
glowing with barbaric luster: this is the scent of the House of Prospero,
the scent of hubris, mad revelry, folly and indifferent decadence, a measured
passage through its lurid corridors and seven grotesque apartments. Honey
and carnation, rich incense and rose accord, myrtle, red sandalwood, amber,
jonquil and clove propel you through the revel, finally seating itself in
the final, patchouli, tobacco and labdanum drenched darkness of the blood-tinged
western chamber. |
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2 x 5mL |
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MONTRESOR |
The black fruit
and vanilla oaken notes of fine Medoc and De Grâve, but not a hint
of the elusive Amontillado. |
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3 x 5mL |
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MORELLA |
Sage with orris,
Florentine iris and a drop of civet. |
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5mL |
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THE
PIT & THE PENDULUM |
The depths of
despair, a dark Ecclesiatical triumph: the incense of the Inquisition. |
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3 x 5mL |
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THE
PREMATURE BURIAL |
Oppressive
darkness, expressed through black orchid and patchouli, smothered by wet
soil, a coffin’s teakwood, and the funereal gloom of cypress. |
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3 x 5mL |
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THE
TELL-TALE HEART |
This is a swollen,
pulsating, thudding scent, heavy with dread; a steady, unceasing, throbbing
harbinger of retribution and doom: blood musk, cocoa, black pepper, allspice,
dragon's blood resin and vetiver. |
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3 x 5mL |
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USHER |
This is Roderick
Usher: a faded genteel light musk and fougere, heightened by hectic white
mint, gleaming mandarin, ethereal tea leaf and gritty blackcurrant brushed
by the scent of the tarn that surrounds the House, and the gloom and decay
of the walls that hold him. |
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2 x 5mL |
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IMP
OF THE PERVERSE |
A 1/32oz vial
brimming with the scent of three roses and a half bottle of cognac. |
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